VEGETABLE growers will see the impacts the carbon tax will have on them. The Leader of the Nationals Warren Truss and The Nationals Senator for Victoria Bridget McKenzie toured Melbourne’s Queen Victoria Market talking to vegetable growers about the carbon tax’s impacts. Senator McKenzie said horticulture was important to Australia’s economy, and was…
DetailsJAMES Paulet is part of a small minority of high school students who are thinking about studying agriculture. The Tallangatta Secondary College year 11 student, who lives on his family’s beef property in the Tallangatta Valley, is doing a certificate II in agriculture as part of his studies. He attended the recent soil carbon forum…
DetailsTrade Minister Craig Emerson and Prime Minister Julia Gillard have been keen to talk up the need for Australia to fill the plates of Asia with our locally-grown produce. But a critical skills shortage threatens our agricultural abilities to meet increasing global demand for food and fibre. The message is not getting through to…
DetailsTHE CRISIS involving agriculture’s skills shortage was addressed in the Senate last week. The Nationals Senator for Victoria Bridget McKenzie, along with other committee representation, released the report into Higher Education and Skills Training to Support Agriculture and Agribusiness in Australia. The report included initiating an industry body to present to government a national strategy…
DetailsTHE Grace Kelly: Style Icon is continuing to attract attention even after the exhibition has closed. The record-breaking Bendigo exclusive exhibition closed last weekend but featured in Federal Parliament on Thursday night. Nationals Senator Bridget McKenzie heaped glowing praise on the Bendigo Art Gallery and the benefits it was bringing to the region. Ms McKenzie…
DetailsSenator Bridget McKenzie discusses the issues yesterday with CSU’s Professor Andrew Vann and Professor John Dwyer. Picture: KYLIE ESLER RURAL Australia could not continue relying on foreign doctors to fill a void, the vice-chancellor of Charles Sturt University, Andrew Vann, told a Senate committee in Albury yesterday. Professor Vann said rural and remote…
DetailsCYBER safety was in the spotlight this week. The Coalition Online Safety Working Group visited Bendigo on Thursday to hear from primary and secondary students, education and sports officials, and representatives from the justice system. Nationals Senator for Victoria Bridget McKenzie said technology was evolving rapidly and it was essential that effective policy was…
DetailsThank you to regional Victorian volunteers who donate their time to help others. During National Volunteer Week (May 14-20), I encourage everyone to take a moment to acknowledge those people who selflessly donate their time and skills. More than six million people volunteer Australia-wide, and contribute 700 million hours of community service each year.…
Details14 May 2012 SENIOR National politicians have pitched their case to win Bendigo’s federal political seat. Federal Nationals leader Warren Truss addressed the party’s state conference in Bendigo on Saturday. He said “Bendigo deserves better” and vowed to fight hard to win the city’s federal seat at the next election. Mr Truss praised Bendigo…
Details“UNBELIEVABLE” fee hikes are forcing small exporters out of business, the owners of a Northern Rivers nursery have told Federal Nationals leader Warren Truss. Mr Truss spent yesterday afternoon at Ellison Horticultural at Rous, near Alstonville. Owners David and Rhonda LeBrocque told him some of their costs for exporting registrations and certificates (required by…
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